Hybrid - 2 Days per week in the office
At RVU we combine the close-knit and agile environment of a startup, with the know-how, technology and backing of a well-established company.
Our mission is to empower people to make confident decisions. With our unique set of brands, including Uswitch, Confused.com, Money.co.uk, and Tempcover, we have the power to reach millions of consumers and the technology to deliver a world class online experience for them.
Our mission at RVU / Uswitch is to simplify intricate marketplaces through intuitive and easily accessible applications that genuinely improve people's lives. Saving hundreds of pounds a year on bills can make a meaningful difference to the lives of vulnerable people who face the difficult choice of having to choose between utilities or groceries.
Our platforms serve millions of users every month, processing thousands of comparisons daily, and managing hundreds of complex integrations with a wide variety of partners. As a business, we take a tech-driven approach to product development through agile delivery within cross-functional teams.
We strive to create the next generation of comparison platforms, and to reach that goal we are looking for passionate, talented, and empathetic engineers to take a crucial role in building highly performant, accessible, and aesthetically pleasing customer experiences to make managing bills easier.
What you will be responsible for:
● Excellence: Work alongside established & experienced engineering teams, whilst supporting and growing the organisation’s understanding & utilisation of modern technology
● Collaboration: Work with various cross-functional disciplines across the organisation to make ideas a reality, whilst taking an active role in shaping and delivering the ongoing technical vision of the organisation alongside your peers
● Autonomy: Authority over technical strategy, decisions and implementation approach, so you can deliver using practices that align with your preferred ways of working
● Data Driven: Utilise rich logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve system performance & reliability
● Culture: Enhancing a diverse engineering culture by taking part in various technical catch ups, working groups and All Hands
● Experience: Enrich RVU’s perspective by sharing your experience, knowledge & expertise in a continuous learning environment.
Requirements
As part of a platform engineering team you will be accountable for the following
As a staff software engineer at RVU you will be expected to
What we look for in you:
● Experience working in large and small agile teams of engineers, and eager to collaborate with other disciplines, such as Marketing, Data Analytics & Product Owners
● Good understanding of Cloud technologies, and their application to solve problems such as Event/Data Ingestion and 3rd Party API Integrations. As well as a strong appreciation of A/B Testing, Monitoring and DevOps principles
● A breadth of knowledge about all aspects of software development and familiarity with procedural & functional languages, preferably having experience with Golang, NodeJS, Clojure, or Python
● Pragmatic approach to deliver effective solutions to address business & consumer challenges
● Committed to your own development and excited to make a direct, substantial impact within a company that provides you with full autonomy to release changes daily
Benefits
What we’ll give back to you:
We want to give you a great work environment; contribute back to both your personal and professional development; and give you great benefits to make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Some of these benefits include:
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